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Course Syllabus: Communication Skills II I. Course Code: II. Course Description

This document outlines the syllabus for the course ENG 123 - Communication Skills II. The 3 credit course is designed to enhance students' writing abilities and develop effective composition skills through critical thinking and reading. Over the course of the semester, students will work to reduce wordiness, avoid structural flaws, develop coherent and unified sentences, and learn different types of writing including descriptive, expository, argumentative, and narrative compositions. Assessment will include exams and course assignments focused on improving sentence structure and composition.

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Course Syllabus: Communication Skills II I. Course Code: II. Course Description

This document outlines the syllabus for the course ENG 123 - Communication Skills II. The 3 credit course is designed to enhance students' writing abilities and develop effective composition skills through critical thinking and reading. Over the course of the semester, students will work to reduce wordiness, avoid structural flaws, develop coherent and unified sentences, and learn different types of writing including descriptive, expository, argumentative, and narrative compositions. Assessment will include exams and course assignments focused on improving sentence structure and composition.

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COURSE SYLLABUS

Communication Skills II

I. Course Code: ENG 123

II. Course Description:

This course ENG 123 – Communication Arts II is designed to enhance students’


ability to write down their ideas with ease and confidence. It aims to develop effective
composition writing skills which require critical thinking and reading.

III. Credit Units: 3 units

IV. Pre-requisite: ENG 113

V. Objectives:

A. General Objectives

At the end of the course, the students are expected to :

1. construct sentence effectively;


2. develop proficiency of communication skills in the transmission of ideas
through writing;
3. develop moral responsibility (in imparting information) as both speaker and
writer; and
4. gain self-confidence in presenting any writing composition.

B. Specific Objectives

For the first half of the semester:

1. reduce or eliminate wordiness in writing;


2. avoid structural flaws in sentence like misplaced modifier;
3. develop meaningful sentences through coherence, unity, and proper
organization of ideas;
4. construct sentences without redundancy;
5. correct faulty parallelism.
6. compose sentences according to grammatical structure

For the second half of the semester:

1. write a clear topic sentence to achieve unity in a paragraph;


2. write different paragraph development;
3. write an effective introduction, body and conclusion;
4. write different kind s of writing composition.
VI. Course Content

MIDTERM
1. Sentence Coherence
1.1 Misplaced Modifiers
1.2 Proper Comparison
1.3. Proper Use of Connectives
1.4. Redundancy
1.5. Parallelism
2. Sentence Unity
1.1 Tense
3. Sentence Emphasis
4. Types of Sentences
1.1. According to Function or Purpose
1.2. According to Grammatical Structure or Syntax

FINAL TERM
1. Paragraph
1.1. Parts of Paragraph
1.2. Methods of paragraph development
2. Topic Sentence
3. Descriptive Composition
4. Expository Composition
5. Argumentative Composition
6. Narrative Composition

VII. REFERENCES:

Edisteo B. Bernardez, PhD. English Communication Arts II. Katha Publishing Co.
Inc. 2005

Maria Teresa M. Antonio. A Worktext in Writing in the Discipline. Mutya Publishing


House, Inc. 2013

Susana Melon Galvez, M.A, Issachar A. Dela Cerna, M.A., English for Specific
Purposes. El Bulakeno

Evelyn Sebastian. English Communication 2. Mindshapers Co., Inc. 2017


VIII. Course Requirements:

1. Module of Communication Skills II


2. Written Exams
ENGLISH FOR
SPECIFIC
PURPOSES

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